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What's a Wreck?

A Cake Wreck is any cake that is unintentionally sad, silly, creepy, inappropriate - you name it. A Wreck is not necessarily a poorly-made cake; it's simply one I find funny, for any of a number of reasons. Anyone who has ever smeared frosting on a baked good has made a Wreck at one time or another, so I'm not here to vilify decorators: Cake Wrecks is just about finding the funny in unexpected, sugar-filled places.

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#5 :The portal to another dimension. The dark path leads you to 3 guiding lamp posts, until you see the diamond shaped white light leading…who knows where?Probably to the land of the ghosts of real balloons.

My daughter says "now you're cooking with dynamite!", which I think would be appropriate for any of these.

My biggest quibble with icing balloons is that they always look deflated--like the 3-day-old leftovers from a party. Or somebody who's lost a lot of weight quickly and their skin hasn't caught up. Sad.

Am I the only person who sees a multi-colored jellyfish on #4? And the orange & green cookies - there is no way these are supposed to be balloons. I am guessing one-eyed aliens, coming to take over our world. "keep your eyes down. You are going to want to look, but you are not going to...keep your eyes on me...don't look!

I'm a cake decorator and always cringe when I see someone requested icing balloons on their cake order form. They never come out looking good, in my opinion. If you really want balloons on your cake THAT bad, they make plastic ones that are always better...go wth those...save us all some pain!

I'm pretty sure all of these wreckerators need a lesson in gravity. Because if these are supposed to be helium balloons, then the strings are not going to be wavy or wiggly or curly (other than the extra bit on the end you can curl with scissors). It will be taut! Even if it's somewhat deflated, the string will only bend in one place. I just don't understand why this concept is so difficult.

Well, at least cake #8 got the strings right. Since the balloons are deflated the strings are all tangled up. Most of the others are a colorful version of the birds and the bees talk from biology class. I always wondered though - are sperm the bird or the bee part of the lesson?

Kyle, you weren't paying attention in biology class, were you? Bees, and some birds, take part in plant reproduction. The idea is that the teacher could talk (vaguely) about how babies are made without mentioning cake at all.